Martin-Pierre Gauthier

Martin-Pierre Gauthier was a French architect.
A student of Charles Percier, he won the Grand Prix [de Rome] in 1810 with a project for a Christian basilica. He stayed at the Villa Medici between 1811 and 1814.
On his return to Paris, he was architect of the Paris hospices and the Louvre of Napoleon I. He taught at École Polytechnique. He was elected a member of the Academy of [Fine Arts (France)|Academy of Fine Arts] in 1842 and named chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1844.
Category:1790 births
Category:1855 deaths
Category:People from Troyes
Category:19th-century French architects
Category:French recipients of [the Legion of Honour]
Category:Members of the [Académie des beaux-arts]
Category:Prix de Rome for architecture
Category:Academic [staff of École polytechnique]